Contributors

Lightning Brown is a poet, computer programmer and political activist who lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. His reporting appears regularly in the North Carolina Anvil.

Nyle Frank is a writer and songwriter who lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Howard Jay Rubin is a writer and magician who lives in Durham, N.C.

Sy Safransky is editor of THE SUN.

Sparrow “lives in an apartment in New York City with a smoke alarm that beats twice a minute because it needs a new battery. So far Sparrow has refused to replace it.”

Chuck Taylor is a writer and small press publisher who lives in Austin, Texas. “You miss out on too much life if you give up the darkness,” he writes. “I stopped being a ‘blissee’ and meditating one day in 1975, when my truck ran out of gas in rush-hour traffic. I was relatively uninvolved with that reality plane and just walked away from it, which didn’t make the cops or the people behind me very happy.”

Thomas Wiloch lives in Westland, Michigan.